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Who Ever Thought That Hip-Hop Would Take It This Far?
From the backyard to the Billboard charts, join The Root in revisiting 50 years of hip-hop history.
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Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop Is Our TV Pick This Week
This Netflix documentary highlights the women who changed the game. Also this week, hip-hop celebrations with LL Cool J, Ice T, and more.
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Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity
Welcome to our new, 8-site series, honoring 50 years of hip-hop and its impact on music, fashion, cars, tech, business, gaming and activism.
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Best Rappers Over 40 in the Hip-Hop Game
Although rappers like Nas, Black Thought and Pusha T are OGs in the game, they’re still putting out some of the best music of their career.
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New Orleans School Board Reverses 100-Year Old Jazz Ban in Public Schools
The school board recently voted to remove a long-standing ban on jazz music and dancing in public schools
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Mic Drop: Hip-Hop, House and Where We Hail From
It’s a new month, and you know what they say about April—how it brings showers and all that. Well, this week’s artists have showered us in house, hip hop and dancehall tracks. House is just one of those genres that you can’t help but dance to and while traditional beats are incorporated across different genres,…
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Mic Drop: Soul as a Whole—and How it Continues to Grow
Soul, man it’s what drives music as a whole. As with all things, music adapts to what’s current, already going on. In recent years, the concept of the genre has transformed into whatever a specific artist identifies with, whether that’s the backing tracks, lyrics or melodies, soul has become a much more approachable genre. Neo-soul,…
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Mic Drop: Are We on the Come-Up?
We all know music can be a useful outlet for all of the pent-up shit we deal with, whether we’re simply listening to it or actually making it—and on the subject of “making it,” this week’s music releases all had a major “come-up” vibe to them. For instance, I was really excited when I saw…